OKI Data Americas Announces Citrix Ready Certification on New C610 Series and C711 Series of Digital Color LED Printers

New certification increases OKI Printing Solutions to fourteen products certified for use with CitrixÒXenApp™, making IT purchasing decisions hassle free

OKI Data Americas, which markets its products under the OKI Printing Solutions brand, today announced it has achieved Citrix Ready® certification on the C610 Series and C711 Series of digital LED color printers. The addition of these two series of printers increases the Citrix Ready portfolio of OKI Printing Solution products to fourteen color and monochrome digital printers. OKI Data Americas certified products completed a rigorous verification process to ensure compatibility with Citrix® XenApp™, providing confidence in joint solution compatibility. The Citrix Ready program helps customers identify third-party solutions that are recommended to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix.

The Citrix Ready solution makes it easy for customers to identify complementary products and solutions that can enhance Citrix environments. Operating via an open framework, the turnkey solution combines OKI Printing Solutions’ products and technology, verified and proven to be Citrix Ready, providing customers confidence in its compatibility, performance and robustness.1

Citrix XenApp is a cost-effective, on-demand application delivery solution that enables organizations to improve Windows application management by: centralizing applications in the data center to reduce costs; controlling and encrypting access to data and applications to improve security; and delivering applications instantly to users anywhere2.

The following OKI Printing Solutions color and mono printers have successfully completed Citrix’s verification testing and received Citrix Ready certification for solution compatibility with Windows Server® 2008: B420

C6150 Series

C830 Series

MB470 MFP

B430

C610 Series

C9650 Series

MC560 MFP Plus

B4600 Series

C710 Series

CX3641 MFP

MC860 MFP

B6500 Series

C711 Series

"The Citrix Ready certification gives customers the confidence of proven application compatibility, from anywhere, and makes it easier for customers to make informed purchasing decisions from OKI Printing Solutions’ full portfolio of printing products to meet their real business needs,” said Doug August, Senior Product Manager, Software and Solutions at OKI Data Americas. “As an early member of the Citrix Ready program, the certification clearly demonstrates our commitment to work with trusted partners, through the Citrix Ready partner ecosystem, in order to provide the highest quality experience for our customers.”

All models can be purchased through OKI Data America’s authorized partners. All OKI Printing Solutions products are built on parent company OKI Data Corporation’s history of leadership and innovation in color printing, such as digital LED technology and Single Pass Color™. This technology allows OKI Data Americas to manufacture products that require fewer moving parts for increased reliability.

OKI Printing Solutions provides live3, toll-free technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year, with agents based in North America.

About Citrix Ready Program The Citrix Ready program identifies verified solutions that are trusted to enhance virtualization, networking and cloud computing solutions from Citrix, including Citrix® XenDesktop®, XenApp™, XenServer®, NetScaler® and GoToMeeting®. The Citrix Ready designation is awarded to third party products that have successfully met verification criteria set by Citrix, and give customers an added confidence in the compatibility of the joint solution offering. The Citrix Ready program leverages industry-leading alliances across the Citrix partner eco-system to meet a wise array of customer needs, and currently incorporates over 2,800 partners who have demonstrated more than 12,000 product verifications. It also includes the Citrix Ready Community Verified program which allows customers to see thousands of products that have been verified by other customers to work in their production environments. The Citrix Ready program received the Alliance Excellence Award from the Association of Strategic Alliance Professionals (ASAP) for creating a strong community awareness of alliances through implementation of new, innovative practices. More information about the Citrix Ready program can be found at www.citrix.com/citrixready. Reach Citrix ready using social media via Citrix Ready blog site and Twitter.

This article was originally posted on Buyer’s Laboratory.